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Zhao Wuzhen was twenty-two years old when her parents arranged a marriage for her. She was an educated woman whose father owned a glass workshop. Zhao's parents chose the son of the Wu family to be her husband, and initially, she was agreeable to the situation. However, she later asked to delay the marriage and was refused.
Arranged marriages have declined in countries where forced marriages were politically outlawed (e.g. Imperial Russia or Japan) or in a prosperous countries with more social mobility and increasing individualism; nevertheless, arranged marriages might still be seen in countries of Europe and North America, among royal families, aristocrats and ...
The Manchu leader Nurhaci married one of his granddaughters to the Ming general Li Yongfang after he surrendered Fushun in Liaoning to the Manchu in 1618 and a mass marriage of Han Chinese officers and officials to Manchu women numbering 1,000 couples was arranged by Prince Yoto 岳托 (Prince Keqin) and Hongtaiji in 1632 to promote harmony ...
Two parents allegedly tried to choke their 17-year-old daughter outside her high school in an attempted “honor killing” for refusing an arranged marriage with an older man, according to police.
A sham marriage of this type, sometimes called a lavender marriage, [7] is usually performed to keep the appearance of heterosexuality [clarification needed] to prevent negative consequences of LGBT discrimination. [8] Such marriages may have one heterosexual and one gay partner, or two gay partners: a lesbian and a gay man married to each ...
A shotgun wedding is a wedding arranged in response to pregnancy resulting from premarital sex. [1] The phrase comes from the figurative imagining that the relatives of the pregnant bride threaten the reluctant male groom with a shotgun in order to ensure that he marries the woman.
Her sisters were all forced to marry at ages as young as 15. Aged 14, she was told she was to marry an older man under an arranged marriage agreed upon when she was 8 years of age. At first she refused, and was locked in her room, but eventually regained more freedom by appearing to consent, and then was able to escape and live her own life ...
Enemies-to-lovers plots are a favorite trope of romance readers. Here are book recommendations you should read if you liked the trope. 19 enemies-to-lovers romance books to read for fans of the trope